{"title":"Baron-Renouard","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"71\" data-end=\"191\" style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e \u003cstrong data-start=\"71\" data-end=\"103\"\u003eBARON-RENOUARD (1921 – 2015)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"103\" data-end=\"106\"\u003e \u003cstrong data-start=\"106\" data-end=\"133\"\u003eThe philosophical colorist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"133\" data-end=\"136\"\u003e “I paint the wind, space, the sea, the horizons.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3 data-start=\"193\" data-end=\"222\" style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e Why is it fascinating? \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cul data-start=\"223\" data-end=\"800\" style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cli data-start=\"223\" data-end=\"338\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"225\" data-end=\"338\"\u003e François Baron-Renouard is a pure, visceral colorist who has found the perfect balance between strength and nuance. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli data-start=\"339\" data-end=\"536\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"341\" data-end=\"536\"\u003e Close to lyrical abstraction, he develops a universe made of tense chromatic masses, ample rhythms, and open structures. He seeks to give breath and depth to space. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli data-start=\"537\" data-end=\"800\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"539\" data-end=\"800\"\u003e He explores fluid and luminous forms, seeking to capture the intensity of the moment through plays of light and shadow. He plays with contrasts, transparencies, and textural effects, giving an almost magical dimension to his compositions. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3 data-start=\"802\" data-end=\"831\" style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e A very contemporary work \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cul data-start=\"832\" data-end=\"1251\" style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cli data-start=\"832\" data-end=\"1004\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"834\" data-end=\"1004\"\u003e Often centered on nature, landscapes and faces, it is marked by an innovative use of light which makes shapes emerge from the background of the canvas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli data-start=\"1005\" data-end=\"1123\"\u003e\n\n \u003cp data-start=\"1007\" data-end=\"1123\"\u003eHis work evokes today's digital palettes: vibrant colors, strong textures, bold flat tints. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli data-start=\"1124\" data-end=\"1251\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"1126\" data-end=\"1251\"\u003e Baron-Renouard worked slowly, always listening to the gesture. Everything is done by hand, by instinct, by material. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3 data-start=\"1253\" data-end=\"1289\" style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e Why is it presented here? \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cul data-start=\"1290\" data-end=\"1811\" style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cli data-start=\"1290\" data-end=\"1395\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"1292\" data-end=\"1395\"\u003e Because it is a generous, inhabited painting. It embodies a profound but accessible abstraction. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli data-start=\"1396\" data-end=\"1666\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"1398\" data-end=\"1666\"\u003e A figure of post-war French abstraction, a friend of Schneider, Poliakoff, and Mathieu, he left behind a luminous and musical body of work that was not limited to painting but was also devoted to the applied arts: stained glass, mosaics, and tapestries. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli data-start=\"1667\" data-end=\"1811\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"1669\" data-end=\"1811\"\u003e Over the decades, he has built an international reputation thanks to his exhibitions in the world's greatest museums and galleries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"francois-baron-renouard-feu-follet-1968","title":"François Baron-Renouard (1918-2010) – Will-o'-the-Wisp, 1968 – Oil on canvas - Artkob Gallery","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"2707\" data-end=\"2752\"\u003e François Baron-Renouard\u003cbr data-start=\"2730\" data-end=\"2733\"\u003e Will-o'-the-Wisp – 1968\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"2754\" data-end=\"2771\"\u003e Oil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp data-start=\"2773\" data-end=\"2911\"\u003eSigned at the bottom right “Baron Renouard”, countersigned, titled and located on the back of the frame: “Baron-Renouard, Paris, Feu Follet”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"2913\" data-end=\"2926\"\u003e 81 × 100 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"2928\" data-end=\"3008\"\u003e Provenance: Artist's collection\u003cbr data-start=\"2964\" data-end=\"2967\"\u003e To the current owner by descent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"3010\" data-end=\"3075\"\u003e Exhibitions: London, Alkwin Gallery, \"Baron-Renouard\", 1968\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"3077\" data-end=\"3213\"\u003e Bibliography: L. Harambourg, “François Baron-Renouard: the magnificent”, Éditions in Fine, Paris, 2020, reproduced in color p.105\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"3215\" data-end=\"3231\"\u003e Framed artwork\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-start=\"3233\" data-end=\"3554\"\u003e Feu follet belongs to a pivotal period in François Baron-Renouard's work, marked by free gestures and dense textures where bursts of color mingle with dark depths. 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